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Central Africa

Congo
Tribunal awards Hojeij $1 billion

In a major - and very onerous - blow for the Republic of Congo, a tribunal of the International Chamber [...]

Subscribers only Politics 06.02.2013

Cameroon
French bosses want more

Most French bosses were underwhelmed with the ‘unrealistic' pitch on Cameroon they were given recently in Paris by visiting Cameroonian ministers.

Subscribers only Politics 06.02.2013

Congo
Sassou tipped to appoint Avouko's successor

Michel "Kosso Olomi" Ombeli, who was promoted to the rank [...]

Subscribers only Politics 06.02.2013

Gabon
Gabon's embassy on the move

After moving to 41 rue de la Bienfaisance in the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 06.02.2013

Spotlight | Central African Republic
The oil stakes in an armed conflict

Because the Central African Republic doesn’t produce oil, the tug of war between rebels from the Seleka movement and the regime of president Francois Bozize officially has nothing to do with oil and gas. That, however, doesn’t prevent the belligerents [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.02.2013

Cameroon
Flurry of offshore blocks on offer

After a significant rise in oil output last year, Yaounde hopes to make new hay by offering fresh exploration acreage.

Free access Energy 05.02.2013

DRC
Highest bidder wins Inga deal

According to our sources, the Austrian firm Andritz Hydro has been awarded the contract to restore two of the six [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.02.2013

Chad
Djerassem Le Bemadjiel

Chad president Idriss Deby has just formed a new government with a lot of newcomers in the cabinet. The new [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.02.2013

Sao Tome and Principe
Osvaldo Abreu

For the first time in long years the minister in charge of oil issues in Sao Tome is a specialist [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.02.2013

DRC
Cohydro

The latest report of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.02.2013

Chad
Year-long inquiry at Griffiths

Even though the ruling brought it unwelcome attention, a fine [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.02.2013

Chad
Heenan Blaikie

When his wife negotiated a "consulting contract" with the Canadian [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.02.2013

DRC
Tim O'Hanlon

Tim O'Hanlon, vice president of Tullow Oil in charge of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.02.2013

DRC
GCM completes Deziwa and Ecaille C buy

As Africa Mining Intelligence anticipated would be the case (AMI 286), Gecamines finally completed its acquisition of a 68% holding [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.01.2013

DRC
Forrest and Gecamines call shots

The American-Finnish company OMG’s disposal of its 55% holding in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.01.2013

DRC
Mining Bank of Congo wound up

The honeymoon is definitely over between Kinshasa and the Russian [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.01.2013

Spotlight | Cameroon
Paul Biya's concession-making trip to Paris

Like Ali Bongo, Idriss Deby and Blaise Compaore before him, Paul Biya is to have an audience with French President François Hollande at the Elysee Palace in Paris. The encounter will take place during Biya's visit to France on January [.

Subscribers only Politics 23.01.2013

Chad, Mali
Toure persuades Deby to get involved

Mali’s exiled former President Amadou Toumani Toure, who now lives in Dakar, pulled some political strings to step up support for the operation to take back North Mali.

Subscribers only Politics 23.01.2013

Central African Republic
Fragile Libreville agreement

The terms of the Central African Republic peace agreement that was signed in Libreville on January 11 by Jean Willybiro Sako, the opposition and rebel forces hint at power struggles to come.

Subscribers only Politics 23.01.2013

Gabon
Libreville woos Hollande's heartland

In a crafty bid to curry favour with François Hollande, Libreville has been taking a close interest in the president's political heartland of Correze in the south west of France.

Subscribers only Politics 23.01.2013

Gabon
Ali Bongo to visit Djibouti

Gabon’s President Ali Bongo is due to make an official [...]

Subscribers only Politics 23.01.2013

Congo
Sassou seeks new security chief

Denis Sassou Nguesso is is trying to find someone to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 23.01.2013

Gabon
Bongo’s new nest

Ali Bongo has bought a villa in Libreville’s upmarket La [...]

Subscribers only Politics 23.01.2013

Gabon
Semlex hires ex-French interior minister Gueant

Lawyer Claude Guéant, who served as France's interior minister under [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.01.2013

Chad, Nigeria
Ali Modu Sheriff

According to our sources, the former governor of the northern Nigerian state of Borno, Ali Modu Sheriff, who was awarded [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.2013

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